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      Institutions/Education 
       
      Institutional cultural policy plays the decisive role in formation of
      dominant tendencies, methods and status of art creation. New methods of
      creation, presentation and distribution of cultural product and creative
      cooperation between all participants of cultural data exchange (authors,
      audience, organizers, and theorists) demand new institutional strategies
      and tactics. It is necessary to establish electronic art centers, work out
      educational programs and projects to finance and support creative
      initiatives in this field, since more and more artists and other cultural
      activists try to find the most effective method of solving their creative
      tasks with the help of new technologies. However, art community often
      criticizes methods used by universities, foundations and some other
      organizations. Open discussion of initiatives ‘from below’ and methods
      of their support ‘on the top’ is the focus of reports and discussions
      of this panel. 
       
      Presentation of media centers’ activities 
      Institutional strategies of media culture support and development 
      The role of media centers in cultural policy formation (presentation of
      art media labs from countries of the former UIS and Eastern Europe,
      discourse on their projects and possible forms of future cooperation,
      experience exchange with Western media institutions) 
      Museum policy in electronic and digital art 
      New methods of presentation of modern culture, art and media technologies
      interaction forms. 
       
      Participants: 
      Raivo Kelomees, E-Media Center, Academy
      of fine art of Estonia, Tallinn 
      Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Ieva Auzina, Media center of electronic
      arts E-LAB, Riga 
      Alexei Isaev, Olga Shishko, Tatiana Gorucheva, MediaArtLab,
      Moscow 
      Nomada Urboniene & Gediminas Urbonas [JUTEMPUS],
      tvvv.plotas, Vilnius 
      Katya Stoukalova, Media Lab of Kiev
      Center of Modern Art, Kiev 
      Katherine Liberovskaya, Studio XX,
      Quebec, Canada 
      Inke Arns, mikro.lounge, Berlin 
      Svetlana Ostrova, Alexei Shulgin, Pro Arte Media Center Program, St.
      Petersburg 
      Alla Mitrofanova, CyberFeminClub, St. Petersburg 
      Andrei Smirnov, Termen Center, Moscow 
      Konstantin Mitenev,
      St.Petersburg, ‘Next Media, or digital revolutionization of actual
      culture in St.Petersburg’. 
       
      Media and New
      Educational Models: reports, presentations, discussion. 
      Moderators - Raivo Kelomees, E-Media Center of Art Academy, Tallinn,
      and Nikolai Selivanov, RSHU, Moscow 
       
      Participants 
      Raivo Kelomees, Estonia: 'Media
      artist and an expert in multimedia. Skills, need for expression and
      technology' 
      Kathy Rae Huffman, USA: ‘Cross-disciplinary program - innovation of
      American digital education today’. Presentation of student works
      (Electronic media-art and communication department, Rensselaer Polytechnic
      Institute, Troy, USA) 
      Nikolai Selivanov (RSHU):
      “‘The Memory’ and ‘The Project’ - diachronic temporacy of a new
      educational medium. New specializations of the world history department of
      RSHU” 
      Svetlana Ostrova, St.Petersburg, and Alexei Shulgin, Moscow: ‘ProArte
      and new program of media education’ 
      Yuri Voronkov, Serguei
      Kouvshinov (RSHU): ‘New technologies and education: comprehension of
      dangers and search for possible decisions’ 
      Serguei Shekhovtsov (RSHU): ‘Intellectual and informational medium.
      Intellectual and educational medium?’ 
       
      Presentation of educational programs and projects of RSHU Media Institute 
      Alexander Vasiliev, Zakhar Asoyan, ‘Peculiarities of professional
      educational program for ‘Journalism of the Internet medium’
      specialization 
      Vladimir Gloukhov, Nikolai Maximov, ‘Portals of scientific data.
      Organization and use’ 
      Petr Shoultsman, Irina Yakovleva, Olga Bal, ‘Creation of educational
      programs based cinema, video and photo archives of Higher Party School in
      RSGU (on CD, VHS, Betacam) 
      Marina Goncharova, Pavel Matushechkin, ‘Use of Higher Party School
      Archives for creation of Net technology computer programs (electronic
      database). 
       
      The hour of an open discussion with the Net community 
      An open video broadcasting on the Net will allow many users to join
      the work of the symposium. Part of working time will be given for free
      exchange of opinions and answers on questions put online. It’s possible
      to enter the interactive conference via our site 
       
      Expected participants of the discussion and presentation 
      Josef Bakstein, Contemporary Art Institute, director; Asya Silaeva,
      Summer Academy, director; Irina Alpatova, Center for Contemporary Art
      Research, director; Nikolai Nikishin, Laboratory of museum projecting of
      RAS Culturology Institute; Dora Roudakova, IATP Program, coordinator for
      educational projects; Vladimir Kinelev, UNESCO Information Technology
      Institute of Russian Academy of Education; Tatiana Selivanova, Institute
      of Art Education of RAE, information technology department, executive;
      Larisa Bazhenova, Laboratory of screen technologies of Institute of Art
      Education; Serguei Zujev, Moscow Higher School for Social and Economic
      Sciences, department of culture management, dean. 
       
      Forms and priority directions of project supporting in media art,
      culture and education - presentation and round table discussion 
      Moderator - Olga Shishko 
       
      Expected participants: 
      Jan Hesseling, Embassy of the Netherlands; Semen Mousher, Soros Open
      Society Institute, the Internet Program; Alexei Lebedev, Soros Open
      Society Institute, the Internet and Culture Program; Elena Kolovskaya,
      ProArte Culture and Art Foundation; Ronald Graetz, Goethe Institute;
      representatives of French Cultural Center, UNESCO, Soros Foundation, and
      others. 
       
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